Chapter 1

Donatello had always been a bit of loner. Always going off by himself, spending night after night in his lab trying to come up with new inventions. Just ways to make life easier, make life a little more bearable. Especially for him and his brothers, and especially after Master Splinter had died.

Master Splinter had been old, and they had all known that his time would come eventually. But they had never expected him to die so suddenly. And even knowing that it would come soon enough, hadn't helped the fact. He had died of a heart attack while he was sleeping, and Donnie was the one that had to tell everyone. He had found him after all.

Noone took it easy. Mikey being the youngest, took it the hardest. He stayed up for nights on end, just in shock the first week, crying himself to sleep the second week, and just laying in bed day after day doing nothing the third. He wouldn't talk to anyone, wouldn't say a word, and wouldn't eat unless it he was forced. Leo didn't take it that hard. He had come to terms with it pretty quickly, and cut ties with him. But noone saw it coming when he left the group. Just up and took off after 2 weeks, he didn't say goodbye. Donnie went to check on him one morning after he had served breakfast to Raph and Mikey, and he was gone. That didn't help Mikey with his coping. Raph being the tough guy never said anything about Splinter dieing. Never got to cope before he died, he ended up being found overdosed on heroine in his bedroom. Donnie found him lying there one night after dinner. He guessed that the heroine was his way of forcing out his feelings. It was how humans did after all.

But Mikey was the hardest for Donatello to get over. It was the one that he never actually come to terms with. Mikey had hanged himself in his bedroom. Wrote a note saying that all the hurt was just too much for him. That all his family was leaving him, and that he couldn't be the last one to live. He couldn't take it. He said sorry to Donnie, and that Leo could go fuck himself.

Now all that was left was Donatello, the last of the ninja turtles. The only one who stayed, and the only one still fighting.